3/23/2006 Physics Colloquium: Lenny Susskind

[Rosrin Srethapramote <rosrin MIT EDU>]

Physics Colloquium Series at MIT
3/23/2006

Lenny Susskind, Stanford University

The Landscape and the Megaverse

A new paradigm for the origin of the laws of physics may (or may not) be emerging out of observational cosmology and theorists efforts to understand string theory.  The ordinary 15 billion light-year  universe is being replaced by a vastly bigger "megaverse" consisting of  a huge number of what Guth calls "pocket universes." If this is true then many of the Laws of Physics that we normally think of as "written in stone" will be local environmenal facts. I will explain the evidence for this controversial view, its implications, and the various views of leading physicists and cosmologists.



Time: 4:15pm
Place: Room 10-250
Refreshments will be served in the Physics Undergraduate Lounge (8-329) at 3:45pm

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